French Lit

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Adams, William Howard; Paul NadarA Proust SouvenirLondon Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1984 0297785443 / 9780297785446 First Edition; First Printing Hardcover Very Good in Very Good dust jacket Photographs by Paul Nadar. A bump to the top corners, and the front board is bowed. Sunning to the dust jacket spine. Gathers fifty-four portraits of people who served as inspiration for characters in Proust's Remembrance of Things Past, and discusses the background of each figure.
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40.00 USD

Baudelaire, CharlesThe Intimate Journals of Charles BaudelaireBoston Beacon Press 1957 Softcover Very Good First Beacon Press edition. Light rubbing to the front cover. A collection of the notorious poet's essays transcends the squalor of his financial ruin and the torture of physical decline to offer thoughts on his world, society, and philosophy. Translated by Christopher Isherwood, with an introduction by W.H. Auden.
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15.00 USD

ColetteThe Other OneNew York Farrar, Straus and Cudahy 1960 Hardcover Very Good in Very Good dust jacket Light rubbing and soiling to the dust jacket. Publisher's price of $3.50 on the front flap.
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17.50 USD

Diderot, DenisJacques the Fatalist and His MasterNew York New York University Press 1959 First American Edition; First Printing Hardcover Very Good in Very Good dust jacket Translated by J. Robert Loy. A small tear to the head of the spine, and the top panel. Rubbing to the bottom page edges, and a small stain to the top of the page edges. Slight edgewear to the front flap, which shows the publisher's price of $4.50. Diderot's ironic critique of the morals of the time, as well as a picaresque novel partially inspired by Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy. Considered to be a precursor to postmodern literature.
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175.00 USD

Fowlie, WallaceA Reading of ProustLondon Dennis Dobson 1967 First Edition; First Printing Hardcover Very Good in Very Good dust jacket Price-clipped, with the publisher's price sticker on the front flap. Tape repairs to the underside of the dust jacket.
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20.00 USD

Gide, AndreMarshlands & Prometheus MisboundNew York New Directions 1953 First US Edition; First Printing Hardcover Very Good in Very Good dust jacket Chipping to the spine, and smaller chips to the top of the front and back panels. A presentable copy.
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15.00 USD

Houellebecq, MichelWhateverLondon Serpent's Tail 1999 1852425849 / 9781852425845 First British Edition; First Printing Softcover Very Good Light foxing to the page edges, but only a touch of edgewear. The unnamed narrator of Houellebecq's first novel is Marcuse's one-dimensional man. a disaffected computer expert sent with a colleague from Paris to the provinces, to instruct civil servants in the use of new technology. A miniscule first printing of 1500 copies.
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35.00 USD

Laforgue, Jules; William Jay SmithSelected Writings of Jules LaforgueNew York Grove Press 1956 First Edition; First Printing Hardcover Very Good in Very Good dust jacket Edited and translated by William Jay Smith. A chip to the top of the front panel, and a short closed tear to the rear panel. Publisher's price of $4.00 on the front flap. A selection of Laforgue's poetry and prose, he was one of the first French poets to write in free verse.
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30.00 USD

Painter, George D.Marcel Proust: A Biography (Two Volumes)London Chatto & Windus 1966-67 Hardcover Very Good in Very Good dust jacket Volume One is a fifth printing; Volume Two a fourth printing. Both volumes are price-clipped, with tape repairs to the underside of both jackets. Light rubbing to the jackets, with only a few nicks to the extremities. The definitive Proust biography, detailing the troubled writer's childhood relationships, love affairs with women and men, and prodigious literary career. A presentable set.
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40.00 USD

Starkie, EnidArthur RimbaudNew York New Directions 1961 Hardcover Very Good in Very Good dust jacket Rubbing to the dust jacket, with some nicks to the head of the spine. Publisher's price of $10.00 on the front flap.
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15.00 USD

Strachan, W.J.Apollinaire to Aragon: Thirty Modern French PoetsLondon Methuen & Company 1948 First Edition; First Printing Hardcover Very Good in Very Good dust jacket Offsetting to the free endpaper. Light chipping, and some darkening to the spine. Publisher's label on the front board. Contributors include Jean Cocteau, Tristan Szara, St. John Perse, Henri Michaux and several others.
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35.00 USD

Vailland, RogerThe LawNew York Alfred A. Knopf 1958 First American Edition; First Printing Hardcover Very Good in Very Good dust jacket A nick to the head of the spine, and slight soiling to the dust jacket. A presentable copy with the topstain still solid. Winner of the Prix Goncourt. The basis for the movie starring Gina Lollobrigida and Yves Montand.
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17.50 USD